Will AI systems have rights or will they be our digital slaves?

In a post-capitalist society, the integration of artificial intelligence into the economic system will dramatically reduce the role of the human factor. New systems for generating artificial thought and discourse such as ChatGPT, which compete with human cognition, are already creating a number of puzzles across the social sciences. What if these intelligent machines come to be smarter than their creators? How would our legal and economic system deal with them? Will they have rights or will they be our digital slaves?

Kathimerini sought answers from a renowned intellectual and anarcho-capitalist theorist, 78-year-old David Friedman. Son of one of the leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought, the Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman (1912-2006), who was the mastermind behind Reagan's and Thatcher's economic policies in the early 1980s,...